War On Poverty

October 20, 1985|By Jane Heron.

CHICAGO — The series on poverty in Chicago shows us how much efforts like the war on poverty are needed, rather than how they failed.

This is not to say that those programs were a cure-all. There are thousands of young adult Chicagoans today, however, who could testify to the importance in their own lives of some of those programs. The fact that many of those agencies no longer exist and that their funding has been severely cut is a real blemish on our public image and is not a significant saving of public funds.